Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“Big Bend Rural School is a historic one-room school building located near Steelville, Crawford County, Missouri. It was built in 1893, and is a one-story, rectangular frame building on a native sandstone foundation.”
Wikipedia article Big Bend Rural School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78001643- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
52 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Big Bend Rural School
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 322 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Arson/incendiarism
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
32 workings within 5 miles of Big Bend Rural School: 31 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur-Pyrite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Steelville, the town this property stands in, in 59 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 27 hail, 26 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 tornado.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees around town. A few of the trees landed on power lines, knocking them down. One home had a window broken on the east side of Steelville.
Three to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils due to the remnants of Hurricane Ike. Several creeks in the Steelville area, including Yadkin Creek, were out of their banks for a time and several roads in the area were flooded.
Heavy rain caused some flash flooding in the Steelville area. Several roads around town and streets in town were flooded. Flooded low-water crossings closed several roads.
The Missouri Highway Patrol reported wind gusts to 60 mph at Cuba. Several minutes later the county sheriff reported high wind gusts in Steelville as well.
The local agriculture office reported 0.75-inch-diameter hail and over two inches of rainfall. The county sheriff also reported wind gusts in excess of 50 mph.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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